Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that invalidity of patent determined in prior lawsuit may preclude plaintiffs assertion of patent validity in later infringement suit brought against different defendant
• observing that “[s]ome litigants— those who never appeared in a prior action-may not be collaterally estopped without litigating [an] issue”
• stating that the rule “does not limit our power to decide important questions not raised by the parties.”
• stating that the rule “does not limit our power to decide important questions not raised by the parties.”
• explaining that “[d]ue process prohibits estopping” those litigants “who never ap- peared in a prior action”
• explaining that due process prohibits barring a litigant who was not a party to a prior action from litigating the identical issue despite existing decisions on the issue that are contrary to the litigant’s position

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).